[July, later than the 19th, 1913]

P. S. We have received word that a meeting with our Russian friends will not take place before August⁴.

¹ V. I. Lenin and N. K. Krupskaya arrived in Bern in connection with a sharp deterioration in N. K. Krupskaya's health. On July 23 she underwent surgery. On August 6 Lenin and Krupskaya returned to Białe Dunajce.

² With reports on the national question V. I. Lenin spoke on July 9, 1913 in Zurich, on July 10 — in Geneva, on July 11 — in Lausanne, on July 13 — in Bern.

³ A. V. Britman (Popov) — a Social-Democrat who, after the II Congress of the RSDLP, joined the Bolsheviks. He was subjected to repeated arrests. In 1908 he was exiled to hard labor, from which he soon escaped; subsequently lived abroad; was a member of the Paris section of the RSDLP and of the Committee of the Party's Foreign Organization. From the beginning of the imperialist world war he volunteered in the French army and perished at the front.

⁴ The reference appears to be to a meeting of members of the Central Committee of the RSDLP held in Białe Dunajce on August 9, 1913. At the meeting questions were discussed concerning the party's immediate tasks, the Duma Social-Democratic faction, the party school, the creation of a Bolshevik newspaper in Moscow, and the newspapers *Pravda*, *Sotsial-Demokrat*, the journal *Prosveshchenie*, the publishing house *Priboi*, and others.

EXCERPTS FROM THE NEWSPAPER "KIEVSKAYA MYSL'"
AND A LIST OF BOOKS ON QUESTIONS OF STATISTICS,
SOCIAL LEGISLATION, AND COOPERATION

[July, later than the 19th, 1913]

"Kievskaya Mysl'" of July 6, 1913 (No. 184). Section: "Kiev Exhibition. Zemstvo Pavilion"*.

Zemstvo-statistical data:

|  | **LANDLORD** | **PEASANT** |
|---|---|---|
| Contamination of wheat | 1.46 | 4.99 |
| — of rye | 1.13 | 1.92 |
| — of barley | 1.74 | 6.35 |
| Weight of grain (1000 grains) | | |
| — of wheat: | 29.51 grammes | 27.37 |
| — of rye: | 20.83 " | 19.27 |
| — of barley: | 40.00 " | 36.70 |

N. A. Rubakin. *Russia in Figures*. An Essay in the Statistical Characterization of the Estate-Class Composition. [St. Petersburg, 1913. Price?] Published by "Vestnik Znania"².

Bulletins of the Census 1910
Agriculture United States

1. Abstract — Farms &
2. " — General Farm crops
3. " — Live Stock &

NB

Thirteenth census of the U. States
Bulletin 3

From new books:

*Kultur und Fortschritt*. No. 477/78: Pudor: "Zur Socialpolitik des Mittelstandes" (0.25 Mk. per issue).

1913
Ignaz Auer: *Nach 10 j.* (Social Legislation). Nuremberg, 1913. (376 pp.). 3.00 Mk.

Reinheimer. *Evolution by cooperation*. London, 1913. 3/6 (200 pp.).

¹ "Kievskaya Mysl'" — a daily newspaper of bourgeois-democratic tendency; published from 1906 to 1918.

² In the newspaper "Kievskaya Mysl'", No. 184, July 6 (old style) 1913, a review was published of N. A. Rubakin's book *Russia in Figures. Country. People. Estates. Classes. An Essay in the Statistical Characterization of the Estate-Class Composition of the Population of the Russian State*, published in Petersburg in 1912.

³ "Thirteenth census of the United States: 1910. Bulletin. Agriculture: United States. Abstract — farm crops, by States"; "Abstract — Farms and farm property, by States" and "Abstract — live stock on farms and elsewhere." V. I. Lenin analyzed these materials in detail in 1914—1915. These materials, devoted to the study and processing of results of special agricultural censuses in the USA, occupy a considerable place in the *Notebooks on the Agrarian Question* (see V. I. Lenin. *Notebooks on the Agrarian Question*. 1900—1916. Moscow, 1969, pp. 554—595).